“Warner’s” Trade Mark Super 8
If my name were Warner, I’d trademark it and write it that way too.
Many Lifetymes
Lifetyme Mixed Grass Seed
“I know that the first day of spring isn’t necessarily the best day to sow grass seed, but it is a good day to post something about grass seed.”
The Princess telephone
“Soft, curvy, and biomorphic,” and designed by Henry Dreyfuss.
A VLC replacement icon
Better than the traffic cone.
Why are barns painted red?
The industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss offers many answers.
Henry Dreyfuss on survival forms
An argument for the skeuomorph: “By embodying a familiar pattern in an otherwise wholly new and possibly radical form, we can make the unusual acceptable to many people who would otherwise reject it.”
Canned Heat and Cooper-Hewitt
Cooper-Hewitt’s Object of the Day today: a 1968 concert poster for Canned Heat at the Fillmore West.
The Polaroid Swinger
Cooper-Hewitt’s Object of the Day.
Benguiat style
The key word: interlock.
The Honeywell Round
The Honeywell thermostat, a Cooper-Hewitt Object of the Day.
Recently updated
An update to a post about book designer Guy Fleming.
Folle stapler
Suddenly my staplers seem — well, inadequate.
The model 500
Henry Dreyfuss’s telephone.
Orange manual art
New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual.
Bernhard’s cat
Lucian Bernhard, creator of the Cat’s Paw logo and much more.
The new Blogger interface on the iPad
The new Blogger interface is better than it was: one now can at least edit existing posts on an iPad. But it’s difficult to see this barely readable text as an improvement. It’s difficult to see this text at all.
&QuA?
Bravo to the publisher who thought it fitting to give a lovely bouquet of letters and punctuation marks to a textbook.
Doyald Young, Logotype Designer
“To learn to draw a letter well takes a lot of time. I’ve been drawing letters since 1948, and I’m still learning how to draw.”
Executive Suite
Executive Suite (dir. Robert Wise, 1954) tells the story of the battle for the presidency of an American furniture company, the Tredway Corporation.
Eameses on PBS tonight
“Check your local listings.”
USPS, Pioneers of Industrial Design
New stamps
Antique Packaging
Antique Packaging is a book of photographs of old cardboard boxes.
IBEW logo
“It’s the juxtaposition of crackling electricity and proper attire that gets me.”
The twelve days of Christmas
A Wordle by Ben Leddy
Designing Obama
A book, also a free PDF
Penguin Great Ideas, fifth series
New covers
The story of QWERTY
Keyboard history
The all-in-one room
Mid-20th-century living, with Mary and Russel Wright
Easier living with Mary and Russel Wright
Modern living, mid-20th-century